Baptist War in Jamaica
1831 · Event
Sam Sharpe's strike-turned-rebellion of 60,000 enslaved Jamaicans is crushed in weeks — but the reprisals so shock Britain that emancipation follows within two years.
On these timelines: Slavery & Abolition, Master, British Empire, Latin America
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